Internet of Things

Our vision is the simplification and unification of network management interfaces. This is achieved with the help of our expert staff working with a range of customers, and through our products like NOCVue™,QuickChassis™, NOCDiscovery™ and NOCPlan™.

COMMITMENT

We are committed to delivering an unmatched customer experience, based on the quality of our people and their work, the reliability of our solutions, and our consistent commitment to exceeding our customers’ needs..

For Velankani, “Every customer is a reference customer”.

SERVICES

Learn more about our services by clicking on any of them in the diagram below.

Type of Service

Network Management & Planning

Full service offering, including network strategy, design, vendor recommendations, vendor-agnostic management software, OSS/BSS, from physical to virtual and digital tools and training.

Network Virtualization & Cloud

Creation of logical, virtual networks that are decoupled from the underlying network hardware to ensure the network can better integrate with and support increasingly virtual environments, supporting cloud services.

Testing & Test Automation

NMS Development

Development and deployment of network management systems (NMS) supporting layered operations support system (OSS) architectures.

OSS Solutions

Software applications that support back-office activities which operate a telco’s network, provision and maintain customer services used by network planners, service designers, operations, architects, support, and engineering teams.

Discovery & Activation Adapter

Velankani’s Network Adapters read each network element and extract the physical and logical inventory, pulling the data into a single, network topology view.

Fibre Planning (FTTx)

We produce customized network designs with cost information based upon business priorities and policies, and delivers comparative designs for communities that want to explore different speed and service scenarios.

Transport Planning

Full service offering including creation of high-level architecture guidelines to standard deployment guidelines and market-level deployment plans for transport networks.

Evolved Packet Core

Evolved Packet Core (EPC) framework for providing converged voice and data on a 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks, and transitioning of 2G and 3G network architectures to process and switch voice and data.

DevOps

Development Operations through software-based delivery processes that emphasize communication and collaboration from concept to market, including product management, software development, and operations professional services.

OpenStack Orchestration

OpenStack Orchestration programs and services enabling human and machine-accessible services, including CDNs, for managing the entire lifecycle of infrastructure.

Maintenance

System Engineering

Design and management of complex systems, including requirements engineering, reliability, logistics, coordination of different teams, testing and evaluation, maintainability and many other disciplines.

Domains

Wireless

A multitude of services to wireless carriers, from site management to carrier network development, systems engineering and management.

Wireline

A multitude of services to wireline carriers, including maintenance and evolution of legacy systems, networks, facilities, and operating and billing systems.

Optical

Professional design, engineering and maintenance services for fiber optic network service providers, including fiber network design, planning, interconnection and more.

VoiP

Access to a broad and experienced team of VoIP experts, including network designers, engineers, and product development professionals, ranging from hardware to software technology development, systems implementation and management.

NETDiscovery™

Velankani’s NETDiscovery™ Network Adapters read each network element and extract the physical and logical inventory, pulling the data into a single, network topology view. Our platform dramatically simplifies a process that has been traditionally complex and expensive.

Raj Singh

Chief Executive Officer

Raj has more than 20 years’ experience in telecommunications, including work at Bell Labs, the Dataphone II business unit of AT&T and McGraw Hill, Inc. Raj joined Velankani in 1991 in a business development role. Under his leadership, Velankani has become a full-service consulting firm providing engineering and management services to telecom and data communications firms. In 2005, Raj Singh became President and CEO of Velankani Communications Technologies, Inc. where he has lead the creation of several business models that are now becoming standard practices in the Industry. In 2011, Raj co-founded Network Design Decisions, Inc. to market FTTx network planning software to the telecom industry.

Ramu Bodathula

Director, Network Management Technology

Ramu is an EMS/NMS subject matter expert, with over 21 years’ experience in software architecture, design, development and deployment of EMS and NMS for various types of network elements. He joined Velankani in 2002 as a project manager and is currently responsible for architecting and managing NOCVue and QuickChassis. Ramu has lead teams to successfully complete critical system analysis and functional design of telecom applications and sub-components and managed technical resources through a formal SDLC methodology to meet aggressive schedules and budget limitations. He oversees RFPs, proposal generation, project estimating and statement of work for Velankani’s business development team. Previously, Ramu was employed by Varros Telecom, Wipro Technologies, DSQ Software, working for key customers such as Alcatel Lucent, Acme Packet, OKI Electric, Japan and Citibank, India.

Ray Krauchunas

Chief Financial Officer

Ray joined Velankani Communications Technologies, Inc. following a 22-year career at AT&T and Lucent Technologies where his experience spanned field operations and engineering, strategic planning, and Operations Support System design, testing, deployment, integration, and support. At AT&T, Ray managed teams that defined AT&T’s Hybrid Fiber Coax architecture for telephone over cable and was lead planner on the development and deployment of AT&T’s Local Operating Systems. At Lucent, Ray was Managing Director of the System Integration Practice. Ray began his career in the telecommunications industry after serving in the U.S. Navy’s nuclear program.

Venkatesh Murthy

Executive Director, Engineering

Based in Bangalore, India, Venkatesh joined Velankani in 2003 as a technical manager and was promoted to Director of Engineering in 2005. He has worked for 16 years in the telecommunications and networking industry and extensive experience working with geographically distributed teams and customers in India, North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Venkatesh has lead teams of up to 10 managers and senior managers and created teams ranging from 2 to 160 engineers to tackle complex embedded and network management implementations. His experience includes development, systems testing, test automation and web/general applications teams in multisite environments. Venkatesh also held technical positions at Celox Networks (USA), Tata Elxsi (India), DSQ Software and ABB India.

Stan Lumish

Chief Operating Officer

Dr Lumish has been a pioneering contributor to the field of optical fiber communications for over 30 years. Early in his career, he held staff and management positions at AT&T and Lucent Bell Laboratories, where his work on the commercialization of advanced optical fiber network systems was recognized with the prestigious Bell Labs Fellow award. Subsequently he held management and executive positions at JDS Uniphase including the Corporate CTO role. He was CEO and board chairman of Pilot Photonics Ltd, an Irish laser startup, where he refocused their direction and set the stage for increased venture funding. In the 2009 timeframe he worked for the US Department of Defense focused on economic development in Iraq and Afghanistan. For his efforts, he was awarded the Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Dr Lumish has numerous publications, conference presentations and patents and is on the boards of two companies and one non-profit organization.

Directors

Raj Singh

CEO and President, Velankani Communications Technologies

Raj has more than 20 years’ experience in telecommunications, including work at Bell Labs, the Dataphone II business unit of AT&T and McGraw Hill, Inc. Raj joined Velankani in 1991 in a business development role. Under his leadership, Velankani has become a full-service consulting firm providing engineering and management services to telecom and data communications firms. In 2005, Raj Singh became President and CEO of Velankani Communications Technologies, Inc. where he has lead the creation of several business models that are now becoming standard practices in the Industry. In 2011, Raj co-founded Network Design Decisions, Inc. to market FTTx network planning software to the telecom industry.

Shankar Iyer

CEO, Viteos

Shankar founded Viteos to bring the hedge fund community a fund administration and middle office model that combined advanced technology with consultative client service. An entrepreneurial leader with over 21 years of international experience in business acquisition and development, he has operating experience in culturally and geographically diverse global markets. Prior to founding Viteos, Shankar was the President and CEO of Silverline Technologies, an IT services company. He successfully guided Silverline through its phases of organic and inorganic growth, managing the acquisition and delivery of services for Fortune 500 clients. He led Silverline to its listing on the NYSE as the first Indian IT services company to be listed on the big board.

Kolanda Reddy

President and CEO, Velankani Information Systems

Kolanda founded Velankani Information Systems in 1985 under the principal of providing the best and brightest consultants to the telecommunications market at a reasonable price. Kolanda has more than 20 years technical consulting expertise in telephony and financial applications. A former Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Kolanda was an early innovator of relational databases. He has extensive experience in database architectural design, implementations and conversions. Kolanda holds two Master’s degrees, one in Computer Science from Queens College, College University of New York, and the other in Operations Research from Osmania University in India.

Tito Sharma

President and CEO, VPI Systems

Tito has 15 years of communications industry experience. Prior to joining VPI Systems, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Lemur Networks, an OSS company in the CATV market. Before joining Lemur Networks, Tito was Chief Financial Officer of Aplion Networks in Edison, NJ, a software and hardware vendor of converged data, voice and video services. He was also a founder and the Director of Business Strategy for Coreon, a start-up in the OSS space for communications carriers. Previously, he held multiple positions in AT&T Corporate Development and Finance in the U.S. and in Asia, where he performed financial planning and analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate development. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from SUNY and a Master of Business Administration from Syracuse University.

Advisors

Srinath Sarang

Co-founder, Meru Networks

Mr. Srinath Sarang was a Co-Founder of Meru Networks, Inc. (Acquired by Fortinet) where he served as its General Manager of Hospitality & Entertainment. Mr. Sarang served as a Vice President of Product Management for Meru Networks, Inc. He joined Meru Networks from Bytemobile Inc (Acquired by Citrix)., where he served as a Director heading various aspects of product development, professional services and sales. Mr. Sarang handled customer field trials and deployment, which proved instrumental with Bytemobile’s first customer, Vodafone PLC. Prior to Bytemobile, Mr. Sarang served as a System Architect of Lucent Technologies. Mr. Sarang was involved with the core architecture team tasked with designing and developing Lucent’s next generation Any PathÔ Unified Messaging System, a carrier class Unified Messaging product for wire line and wireless networks. Mr. Sarang’s involvement spanned the product cycle from conceptualization to deployment at multiple carriers around the world. Mr. Sarang started his career designing embedded systems in the voice messaging industry and graduated to be an infrastructure architect with core expertise in security and messaging protocols. Mr. Sarang attended the Masters program in Computer Science at San Diego State University and has a BS in Computer Engineering from Karnatak University, India.

John Landau

John Landau has thirty years of experience in the global telecommunications and technology industries, and today serves as an advisor to Velankani, as well as an advisor to NetFoundry and Tata Communications and other companies. John served most recently as Senior Vice President of Technology and Service Development, Corporate Strategy Group at Tata Communications, where his tenure included roles as SVP Technology and Services Evolution, SVP, Global Managed Services, and VP Enterprise Services. John joined Tata Communications as part of the acquisition of VSNL’s communications business, where John lead the development of the company’s global connectivity, data center, and applications services portfolio for enterprises. John was SVP Product Management for ITXC, building the largest wholesale VoIP network in the world, which was acquired by Teleglobe. Previous roles included technology, product management and marketing positions for the Intel Communications Product Group, Dialogic, Benchmarq Microelectronics, and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). He started his career in product management as Mostek Corporation in 1978. John and his wife live in Morristown, New Jersey.

Velankani’s team prides itself on working collaboratively with our customers and our ecosystem partners as an advanced technology solutions community.

Whether we are building infrastructure or developing, testing and rolling out applications that contribute to our customers’ business success and bottom line results, we always aim to make it a seamless interaction.

CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE

Velankani’s Centers of Excellence are located in the US (Somerset, New Jersey) and India (Velankani Tech Park, Bangalore). We also have a development team located in Chennai, and work with partners in over 30 countries.

We employ hundreds of professionals across nearly every discipline, from software, systems and network engineers to product development and management professionals. We invest in training, developing and motivating the best talent in the market, constantly educating our teams, and providing leadership and career opportunities to outstanding individuals as we continue to grow.

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In most network environments, and all large network operator and service provider environments, there is a vast assortment of devices, vendors and operating systems, which is becoming increasingly complex as many large companies are merging together, bringing with them the OEMs, systems and software companies, in physical locations, and in virtual management domains.

Over the last twenty years, “the cloud” has become a endless sky of many different clouds, some private – some public – some hybrid. Some clouds are application specific. Other clouds support many applications.